Green Roasting Tin

Rukmini Iyer’s Green Roasting Tin is the vegetarian follow-up to her original Roasting Tin cookbook. The premise stays the same. Everything in this book is cooked in a single roasting tray in the oven, with prep time kept low and the cleanup even lower.

The recipes lean Mediterranean, North African, and Indian, with a few northern European staples mixed in. There are quick weeknight options and a smaller selection of more involved dishes for entertaining.

Iyer is good at giving recipes that don’t require a stocked specialty pantry. Most ingredients you can pick up at a regular supermarket. The food photography is appealing without being intimidating.

If you cook vegetarian some of the time and want a book you’ll actually use rather than admire, this is one of the more practical options on the shelf right now.